Our vetus amicus Michael Hendry has put up a useful tool for those folks struggling to convert between various ancient number systems (we’ll make sure all those journalists get this at SuperBowl time) … should be useful in the Latin and Greek classroom too:
Day: July 3, 2012
On the Web: Database of Ancient Art
My spiders just brought back a great sarcophagus image, which came from an internet source that is new to me and looks potentially useful:
Here’s the image, by the way:

… each image has a brief description, of course …
Classical Words of the Day
- volant (Merriam Webster)
- logomachy (Wordsmith)
- surfeit (Dictionary.com)
- perstringe (Worthless Word for the Day)
Latinitweets:
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v nonas quintiles
ante diem v nonas quintiles
324 A.D. — Victory of Constantine over Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople
Blogosphere ~ Myth Monday – The Chimera
About.com Ancient / Classical History: Myth Monday – The Chimera.